The Little World

Whenever you feel guilty about spending money on your scale models at the hobby shop, reflect on the other places you could go to:

a. The liquor store. There are bottles of wine that cost more than your entire wardrobe, including the Mickey Mouse bathrobe. Once bought, most of these bottles can never be drunk; they are investments that you need to worry about. Eventually they will degrade to vinegar and your money will have done you no good whatsoever.

b. The Golf Shop. You can spend nearly any amount of money, with the possible exception of a sensible one, on golf clubs, bags, carts, balls, and clothing. You further compound the foolony by buying time on a large lawn with holes. You attach prestige to this.

c. The motor car showroom. Well, what can we say to a person who buys an extremely expensive motor car and either garages it or drives it in rush hour on the Mitchell? No sense scolding as their folly punishes them day and night forever.

d. Jewellery. Unlimited expense for no practical purpose. The attractive woman can get laid without it and the ugly one cannot hide behind it.

e. Leica cameras. They are just cameras but at 18 times the prices of comparable machines from other makers. You buy a legend and legends can charge what they wish.